What is the relationship between Han nationality and Han dynasty?

Han people are used to calling themselves Han people, because the Han Dynasty in China used to be called "Huaxia" or "Zhu Xia". The Han nationality is the main ethnic group in China, a descendant of the ancient Huangdi and Yan Di tribes, and a descendant of the Chinese nation. "Han" originally refers to Tianhe and Yinhe. The Book of Songs says: "Where there is Han, there is light in prison."

The Han Dynasty was the first golden age in the history of China's development, and it was during this period that the Han nationality got its name. Because of its high level of civilization, the Han nationality has always been in an advantageous position among the fraternal nationalities in China, which is the result of historical development and natural formation. Since the Han Dynasty, although the name of the dynasty has changed, the status of the Han nationality as the main ethnic group in China has never changed.

Culture and science in the Han Dynasty were extremely active, and foreign exchange was of great significance. The Han Dynasty further established the national culture of the Han nationality, and the Confucian culture respected by the Western Han Dynasty became the mainstream culture of the Central Plains Dynasty and East Asia at that time and later.

Today, "Han Chinese" is still the self-proclaimed name of most people in China, while Chinese people are gradually called "Han Chinese", and Chinese characters are also named after "Chinese characters". Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty ousted hundreds of schools and respected Confucianism alone. Confucianism became the ruling ideology of China for thousands of years. Imperial academy was first established in Chang 'an, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to study Confucian classics. There were as many as 30 thousand students at one time.

During the period of Emperor Hanming, Buddhism spread to China for the first time, and the first Buddhist temple, Luoyang White Horse Temple, was built in Luoyang. China's first Chinese translation of Buddhist scriptures was "Forty-two Chapters of White Horse Temple", and the establishment of Taoism by Zhang Daoling was also an important event that influenced China.

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The formation and development of Han nationality

In the history of Han social development, the long feudal society is a prominent feature. Although the academic discussion on the stages of China ancient society has been going on for almost half a century, there is still no completely consistent conclusion, but Qin Shihuang unified China and entered the feudal society, and he has basically got a unified understanding.

On the question of when the Han nationality was formed, the academic circles generally believe that the Han nationality took the Huaxia nationality in the pre-Qin period as the core, and a unified nationality was formed in the Qin and Han dynasties. By 1840, it had experienced a development process of more than two thousand years under the feudal monarchy.

From 1840 to 1949, new development has been made in the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle; After the founding of New China from 65438 to 0949, it gradually developed into a socialist country for the people of all ethnic groups.

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